After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The middle finger of modernity.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.