A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.

The oldest candy store in the world has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

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

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.