This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A local prank turned town icon.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.