Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

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

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.