On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

Eastern Canada's ocean playground.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This former chapel resides on an island connected to the mainland by one of Shetland's iconic beachy tombolos.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

Legend has it that a Dutch fisherman lost control of his Shetland pony and tumbled from this cliff.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.