This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

In the Bahamas sits a lighthouse that is among the last of its kind.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.