Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A collection of biblical memorabilia.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.