A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.