This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

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

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

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

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."