If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

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

A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

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

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

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

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