This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

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

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.