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Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.