Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.