A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.