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

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

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