Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The former home of a foreign correspondent who reported on Korea’s independence movement has been restored and is open to the public.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.