This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.