The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years worth of shipwreck artifacts.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

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

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.