Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.