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Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.