A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.