A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.