As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A narrow, serpentine spit of sand is constantly eroded and rebuilt by competing currents.

The exorbitant price of paradise.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery."

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

The most disputed archipelago in the world.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

Rocky cove with large smashing waves tied to an important Samoan cultural story.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.

The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.