The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The "Seinfeld" diner.