Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.