Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

This risky summer festival honors a historic volcanic eruption.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 book shares a surprising connection with El Salvador.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

This remote island, home to the easternmost point in Denmark, once hosted pirates and a military fortress.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

These millennia-old murals once covered the walls of residential complexes across the ancient city.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

A small island in Lake Garda that was used as a burial site, pirate hideout, and a monastery.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.