A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.