The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

This museum explores how a 1973 volcanic eruption forever changed this small Icelandic island.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

One of the oldest surviving lock houses on the Ohio River.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

This beautifully situated lakeside Roman settlement was likely built during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

The oldest military monument in the United States.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

A centuries-old copper mine that once provided two thirds of the world's copper supply.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

This runestone once destroyed by an explosion has been painstakingly reassembled to save its history.

Stockholm's famed ghost train is now on display at an art park in northern Sweden.