This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

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

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.