For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

An impressive array of unique homemade planetariums.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.