This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.