For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

Expansive and colorful studio of Minneapolis art-star, Doug Padilla.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.