This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

This giant radio telescope would be a rusting ruin if it hadn't become such a beloved relic.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The Rio Lerma (Chignahuapan) in El Salto, Mexico, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It’s covered in white foam, and falling in can kill.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

The hottest place on the planet.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.