Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

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

Things roll uphill on this Mexican street that seems to defy gravity.

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

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

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

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.