This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.