Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

An underground city of salt.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.