A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Ancient mysterious ruts carved in the bedrock.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.