A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The lost American era of gunfighters, bandits, Indians and steam trains is recreated in Sweden.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.