The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."