Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.