A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

A boardwalk winds above this beautiful bog full of wildlife and a rare type of turtle.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.