Kitakyushu, Japan
Wisteria Tunnel
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
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Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.
Tullamore, Ireland
An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.
Whitby, England
The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.
Hammerfest, Norway
This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.
Oymyakonsky District, Russia
The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.
Gaiano, Italy
A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Oslo, Norway
Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.
Chiang Rai, Thailand
Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Aba, China
Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.
Belhaven, North Carolina
A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.
Meškuičių seniūnija, Lithuania
An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.
Dienersdorf, Austria
"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Los Angeles, California
One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.