The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.