A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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

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

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