A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

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

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.