Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.