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A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.