This museum and former department store is home to the largest collection of A.R. Mitchell art in the world.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

These unconventional "tub boats" let locals row around the island's turbulent coast.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.