Successful single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a sailing boat was a wish said to be granted at the well.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.