A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

An Ecuadorian haberdashery that sets the record straight about the so-called "Panama" hat.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A Korean village where times stands still.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...