A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Nature's slip and slide.