Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.