This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.