Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

This abandoned mausoleum from 1815 sits deep within the forest surrounding Callendar House.