This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.