This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.