The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.