Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.