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The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Mesoamerican monoliths and zoomorphic stones covered in royal visages, ancient mythology, and grand celestial events.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

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

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

A violent name for a violent volcano.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

The heroic tale of a remarkable pup who refused to leave her master's side, no matter what.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Scattered monuments in the middle of the Sahara dedicated to the late Egyptian actor and desert explorer.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

Some of the ancient-looking huts among these strange rock formations aren't ancient at all, but built as part of a movie set.