An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.