This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

This is the house that spite built.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

One of the earliest relics of Italian art is this ornately equipped stone soldier.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.