The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.