The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

This hillside village by the sea has been revitalized by street art.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

Throughout this South Korean village, homes and businesses are covered in fantastic handpainted murals.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

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

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

In this Brazilian city, a vertical graveyard rules the skyline.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

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

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.