Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Dedicated to a young woman who broke gender barriers at the University of Madrid.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

This lucky bronze frog was gifted to Madrid by a casino.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The magic's in the hole!

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

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.