Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.