No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.