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

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

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

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

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

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

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.