A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A site outside Pedraza, Spain where a plaque tells a tale of seven-legged creatures that were said to have once lived in the area—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A land of debatable treasure.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.