The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A student driver's nightmare.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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