A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.