A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.