"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.