This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A series of caves, tunnels, and wells filled with fascinating figures and symbols.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.