Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

Somewhat controversial when first unveiled, this gathering of sea creatures has become a hidden gem.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.