This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

At 72 feet below sea level, it's the lowest commercial airport in the world.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.