A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.