A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.