This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

“It has nae lugs!”

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.