Wattens, Austria
Crystal Worlds
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
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Wattens, Austria
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
Genoa, Italy
This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.
Milan, Italy
An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Capriate San Gervasio, Italy
A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."
Pisa, Italy
A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Ravenna, Italy
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.
Eskifjorður, Iceland
This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.
Bjarnarhöfn, Iceland
At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.
Los Angeles, California
A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.
Los Angeles, California
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
San Francisco, California
A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Montecatini Terme, Italy
The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.