Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.