Places Tim Martini - Exploring The Obscure Wants to Go

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.