Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

The largest drain hole in the world.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.