Enter the Forest of the Elves.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.