The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

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

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.