The Colony, Texas
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
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The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Tabley, England
This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.
Wellington Mill, Australia
Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.
Sierksdorf, Germany
A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.
Predjama, Slovenia
Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.
Yangzhou Shi, China
Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Milan, Italy
Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.
Borshchivs'kyi district, Ukraine
A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.
Provins, France
An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.
Quartzsite, Arizona
The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.
Lille, France
Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.
Lille, France
An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.
Arras, France
An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.
Tallahassee, Florida
A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.
Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
A surrealist labyrinth and museum of contemporary sculptures.
Altadena, California
The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.
Sosúa, Dominican Republic
An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Chicago, Illinois
Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.
Houghton le Spring, England
The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.
Naples, Italy
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
Nicosia, Cyprus
A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.
Rijeka, Croatia
This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.