Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.