Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A student driver's nightmare.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This centuries-old tree tells an unusual tale of vegetation and fertility in the desert.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.