Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

An airplane wing is a roadside art installation and monument on a remote stretch of highway.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A well-worshipped shrine to the Virgin Mary nestled inside the last of Zagreb’s historic gates.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.