Paris, France
Jules Lavirotte’s 29 Avenue Rapp
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
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Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Boston, Massachusetts
One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.
Culver City, California
Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Jaca, Spain
32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.
Aubagne, France
This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.
Petersham, Massachusetts
This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.
Cologne, Germany
An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany
A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
Manitoba
The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.
Washington, D.C.
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.
Lanai City, Hawaii
The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.
Zhangjiajie, China
This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”
Allauch, France
Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.
Valencia, Spain
This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.
Victoria, British Columbia
A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.