One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

This well held a sacred source of water supposedly unleashed from the barren rocks by a wizard-like archbishop.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.