Brussels, Belgium
Le Museé du Jouet (Toys Discovery Museum)
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
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Brussels, Belgium
A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Urubamba, Peru
Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.
Paro, Bhutan
The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Roccascalegna, Italy
This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Güejar Sierra, Spain
This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Yuncheng, China
Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
New York, New York
This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.
Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Tokyo, Japan
Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Karuizawa, Japan
Children's literature inside, forest all around.