Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!