New York, New York
The SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
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New York, New York
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Hanoi, Vietnam
A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
Los Angeles, California
Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.