The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

In this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery, monks painstakingly restore old books.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.