A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

This castle-fortress is a living example of the transition from medieval defenses to modern fortifications.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.