Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Secret Swing.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.