Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.