You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.