A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

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

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.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.