Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Home of the "true" equator.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.