The hometown of a beloved manga artist created a treasure hunt for his popular ghostly characters.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.