A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.