It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Set amid the remains of a secret WWII airfield, this barn was preserved as a memorial to Allied agents who parachuted into Europe.

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.