Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

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

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.