The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

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

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.