At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

An architectural oddity where the triglyphs of the courtyard of walls create an optical illusion.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.