This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.