This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

A medieval fountain lined with 99 unique stone faces whose origins and meaning remain unknown.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

A Swedish town came up with an out-of-the-box way to eliminate the bloodthirsty insects.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.