This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

17th century palace once a meeting place for politicians.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.