When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.