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This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

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

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.