An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Step inside this 1964 whale sculpture to explore its colorful history.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Historic bar where the Singapore Sling cocktail was invented.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

There are hidden patterns on the subway seats of some Stockholm metro cars.