This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Uppsala's adorable feline sign celebrates a popular children's book set in the Swedish city.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.