This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.