This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.