A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."