The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

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

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.