A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A student driver's nightmare.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

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

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.