The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

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

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A student driver's nightmare.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.