The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.