Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.

Hopefully inspecting his tin pan for little nuggets of gold.