The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.