This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.