Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The magic's in the hole!

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

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 water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.