This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

This Canadian city is actually two-in-one, even if they only respect the timezone of one side.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."