This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.