This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

The largest civilian satellite control center in the world is located in the middle of a drained lake.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.

This seaside pine grove features an exclusive watchtower that presents amazing views.

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

A disused quarry turned lake in the middle of a residential district.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.