For more than 70 years, this small shop has been a go-to for Kolkata's fountain pen connoisseurs and collectors.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This drive-by, rotating mini-gallery is nestled in the suburbs of Colorado.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Brazil's only museum dedicated to the art and evolution of tattoos.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

Not many houses move across borders, this one did it twice.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

This innocuous-looking button may have been used to assassinate a king.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.