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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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