Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

An underwater city for the dead.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Moss-covered sculptures fill this small Brazilian gorge.