The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.