Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.