A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.