This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

A beautiful viewpoint on the Garden Route overlooking a naturally-occurring outline of Africa.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.