The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years worth of shipwreck artifacts.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.