The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A series of tiny artificial islands rich with produce bob atop the surface of the lake.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.