In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.