The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.