Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

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

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.