This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

The most confusing clock in New York.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

World's largest Christmas store.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.