A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A science teacher's dream.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

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

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.