This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

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

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Set sail on a small scale.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.