The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

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

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.