This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.