An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

Originally a meeting place for foreign correspondents and war reporters, the FCC remains an atmospheric spot for sunset drinks in Phnom Penh.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The middle finger of modernity.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.