This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.