The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

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

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.