Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

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.