Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

One of the city's oldest pubs displays a skull said to belong to the country's last witch burned at the stake.

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

Home to works by notable Mexican artists and an underwater mosaic of the pre-Columbian goddess Gaia.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.