Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.