Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

Named for its similarity to the tip of a violin's bow, this striking formation was created by millions of years of erosion.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.