On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

An island said to shake with the current.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.