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The Curio Emporium
The Curio EmporiumDelve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.When stepping into The Curio Emporium in South Pasadena, the color shift to sepia is so complete, only a peek out...
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La Maison à Vaisselle Cassée
La Maison à Vaisselle CasséeA former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.In Louviers, France, Robert Vasseur with the help of his wife decided to deviate from the...
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Mayerling Lodge
Mayerling LodgeSite of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary VetseraFor reasons that have never been entirely understood, sometime during the night of January 29, 1889 crown...
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Juliet's Balcony
Juliet's BalconyPilgrimage site for star-crossed loversEven though Juliet Capulet is a fictional character created by Shakespeare, millions worship her as a love goddess. Every year tourists from...
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les Escaules
les EscaulesAt the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human inhabitation.On a hilltop overlooking the Muga Valley stands the remains of Escaules...
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Brain Museum
Brain MuseumTucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America. The Brain Museum in Lima is not for those with a...
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Nevada County Hospital
Nevada County HospitalAbandoned hospital with sinister history lies empty on the edge of town it served for 150 years.Though it served different purposes throughout the years, the Nevada County...
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Museum of Prosciutto di Parma
Museum of Prosciutto di ParmaHam is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business. Prosciutto di Parma is not just slivers of salty goodness -- It is a delicacy seeped in...
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Nautilus House
Nautilus HouseFantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architectureA young family tired of their conventional home yearned to live in something a little more intergrated with...
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Lummis Castle el Alisal
Lummis Castle el AlisalEccentric journalist builds himself a castle stone by stoneCharles F. Lummis was an author and historian who, after dropping out of Harvard in 1881, decided to walk from...
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Waco Mammoth Site
Waco Mammoth SiteVisitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one eventIn 1978, two men were hunting for arrowheads along the Bosque River in Waco, Texas,...
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Explorers Club Headquarters
Explorers Club HeadquartersA treasure trove of exploration artifacts, books, and artworkBehind appropriately impressive heavy doors and ornate turn of the century stained glass windows, the Explorers...
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The St. John's Bible
The St. John's BibleThe first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing pressThe lifelong dream of prolific calligrapher, Donald Jackson, to create a hand-illumanited and...
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Old Trapper's Lodge Statues
Old Trapper's Lodge StatuesA wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce CollegeIn 1941, former tracker John Ehn opened a motel in Burbank and called it “The Old...
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Glendurgan Garden Maze
Glendurgan Garden MazeThe twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.In it's earliest beginnings in the 1820's, Glendurgan Gardens was thoughtfully aid out to sustain it's design...
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Clone Factory
Clone FactoryJapanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley" Japan is blazing the trail when it comes to developing synthetic humans. Seemingly lacking whatever it is that...
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Museum of Broken Relationships
Museum of Broken RelationshipsWhere the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes We all have different ways of dealing with the mementos left behind when a love is lost. Unable to let go,...
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Lake View Cemetery
Lake View CemeteryA beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.Located on a breathtaking expanse atop Capitol Hill, this burial ground was established in 1872 as the Seattle...
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Blur Building
Blur BuildingIn memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.The Blur Building was a temporary media pavilion built for the 2002 Swiss Expo in...
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Eram Garden
Eram GardenNamed after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.Eram Garden (Bagh-e Eram), located along the...
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