The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

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

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."