A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

This church is said to have connections to the Knights Templars.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Dedicated to the "World's Luckiest Fishing Village."

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.