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

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

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

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

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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