Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

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

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.