A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

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

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.