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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.