This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.