New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

What is the Thing?

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.