Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.