Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

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

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.