A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.