The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

A small village in two different countries.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The world's largest commercially available hamburger is complete with 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, and 36 pounds of cheese.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

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

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

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

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.