When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

The middle finger of modernity.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

Temple of a million beers.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.