This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.