After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This is the house that spite built.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

This nightmarish children's plaything was left grotesque to help kids conquer their fear.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.