Hayakawa, Japan
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
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Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
Yoro, Japan
Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
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.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Hamragarðar, Iceland
This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Iceland
Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.