Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.