Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

This 12,000 year old Iranian cave village has been continuously inhabited for over 3,000 years.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.