A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

An urban laboratory.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."