The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

Literal "money laundering."

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.