Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Home of mutant livestock.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.