An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

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

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.