A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

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

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Sleepy fishing port not included on many maps.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

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

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.