A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

The oldest playground in America.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.