This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.