Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.