When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

A strange collection of sculptures resides along a trail in Nova Scotia.

A large open-air Socialist Realist mosaic, considered the largest in Serbia.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

An industrial waste tourist attraction.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, you can drive through the trunk of an ancient tree.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.