A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.