This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

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

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

This giant underground cave chamber can only be accessed through a small opening at the top.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

The world’s largest digital waste dump has become a site where organized criminals hack into confidential government data.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.