Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

Spirits from these lakes are said to produce the local weather and odd phenomena as they bicker between themselves.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

For over 40 years, this quaint little house has teetered on a rock in the middle of a river.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.