This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A Korean village where times stands still.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.