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A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

An eerie illusion of a nun is said to haunt this cathedral’s Baroque-style bell tower.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A mesmerizing wonderland of salt-encrusted tree branches and pencil roots.

A fairytale-like grove with a crystal-clear spring bubbling under the shade of a massive ancient tree.

This crocodile-infested Timor-Leste reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.