Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

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

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Nature's slip and slide.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.