Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

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

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.