A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Natural walking trails around this abandoned hilltop stone quarry offer nature enthusiasts fantastic views of the city.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.

This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery."

To make itself stand out in a city renowned for its numerous museums, this photographic archive resorts to immersively-themed exhibitions.