A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

A collection of Inukshuks built and left by several hikers.

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

These are probably the most beautifully-crafted toilets you've ever seen.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The first modernist church in Europe.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.