The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.