A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

The designated Jewish quarter in Fez dates back to the 15th century.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.