Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.