Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.