Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.