Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.