A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.