A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

A hidden tidal pool that transforms into a frothy natural jacuzzi.

Dine on ceviche tacos in the sea at this floating restaurant only accessible by boat.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.