An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

The ruins of an open-air theater built on this Georgia island in the 1970s.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

Marine fossils from the Devonian period are exposed at this park.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Local lore says this 700-year-old tree has sacred and medicinal properties.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.