One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

An underground city of salt.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.