The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

This old Estonian mine has been kept like a sprawling time capsule of the local shale industry.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

A hidden alley with seven corners and handmade cat decorations.

Grand architectural relics gain a new life in this Pennsylvania warehouse.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

Installed in 1965, this whimsical slide has spawned a brood of “octopus mountains” across Japan.

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

On a river island north of Bangkok, a small bar helped lead a home-brewing rebellion.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.