A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

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

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."