Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

This art center located in a former hydroelectric plant uses native plants to create paper for kites, bags, jewelry, and more.

Amid lush greenery, a man-made channel peppered with graffiti that dates back to 1881.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The stoutest tree in the world.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

The former textile factory is now an oasis for the arts.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.