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This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.