Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.