Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

This World War II airfield enjoys a second life as a public park.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.