The great American road trip, but smaller.

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

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.