A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

The smallest country in the world.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.