The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

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