This dazzling three-story shop showcases the art and history of music boxes, a popular novelty in Japan.

A massive playground in the woods of Germany.

An astounding 13th-century architectural and historical achievement

Over 40 species of fern cover the canyon walls of this lush green bowl, cut off from the bustle of the world by a cave entrance.

A long-worshipped mountain, considered a "power spot" and suspected to be an ancient pyramid by some.

Even after multiple failed attempts to be hanged, Chaguinhas was still alive, making people believe it was a miracle.

Likely Mexico City's most eclectic shopping mall, with its own version of the Walk of Fame.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.

The ruins of a stone tower with alleged (but unlikely) Roman origins.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

This old museum contains dozens of detailed miniature ships and buildings.