This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.