This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Orcas on display and in the water.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

An artist's statement of new uses for ordinary and discarded materials.

Pizza with a side of fine art.