Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Inside a beautiful Indian temple is a seemingly magical floating pillar that doesn't touch the ground.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.