The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

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

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.