This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."