What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

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

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This historic cliffside mansion uses a natural cave for air conditioning.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.