Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.

Pigduck of Turku.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.

This beautiful spit of land was once the summer playground of the king of Spain.