James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

The Rio Lerma (Chignahuapan) in El Salto, Mexico, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It’s covered in white foam, and falling in can kill.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.