A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.