The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.