This palatial building houses a remarkable gallery of papal portraits.

Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.