A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.