A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A medieval house with mysterious alchemical inscriptions on its facade

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

The ship that got left behind.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.