The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

100 years later, they're still down there.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The humble Hoosier roots of a famed Broadway composer.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.