The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

All of Thailand's architectural landmarks, plus some made up ones, all viewable via two-seater bicycle.

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

Cities of the world and famous Thai monuments in minature.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.