Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

One of China's last communal villages wears its ideals on its sleeve.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.