Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

Natural saunas fed by volcanic heat.

Volcanically heated hot springs.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

100 years later, they're still down there.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.