A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

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

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

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

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.