The house of a former Argentinian president stands protected within a large glass case.

One man's quest to collect artifacts from every aspect of human life has resulted in this eclectic Argentinian museum.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Once an aquarium, this sanctuary now rescues sharks and rays from fishing nets.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

These fascinating 19th-century tombs in the center of Pune belong to Europeans who lived in the city in that era.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.