This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.