According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

This small park holds what remains of a former prison and execution ground.

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.