This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.