Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.