This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

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

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.