An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.