This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

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

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The magic's in the hole!

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.