The only museum in the world dedicated to the history of sprint car racing, next to one of the country's most historic dirt tracks.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.

Prehistoric sandstone menhir with Early Bronze Age cup and ring markings, also known as Robin Hood's Stone.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.