This small stone hut was once home to a gold prospector and his family.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Nature's slip and slide.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.