In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?