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This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

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

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.