Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

The loneliest island in New York.

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

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

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.