These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.