Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.