Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.