Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

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