Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.