Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

These sacred totem houses connect the Fatakulu people with the spirits of their ancestors.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

Museum of Fijian history, including its former tradition of cannibalism.

Located on top of mines that run through Broken Hill.

Tribute to the Chinese people of Young and Australia.

Record-holding guitar meant to promote country.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.