35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.