This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

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.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.