This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

The realistic reptiles lurk along the side of a highway.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.