A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.