This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.