A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.