Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Dedicated to improving the plight of the rare scaly anteater.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.