In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

A total of 22 tiny bridges cross this canal of the Yvette River, forming a unique trail.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.