The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.