One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Haven for steampunks.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A cargo of beautiful music.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

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