exotic

The same techniques may also help model other difficult systems, including exotic materials with unusual quantum properties.

They were all from his gentlemen’s club or from various banks, except for one thin, stained envelope with no return address but which bore many colorful postmarks and exotic stamps from distant lands.

“An exotic creature, to be sure. Once she’s stuffed she’ll make a handsome addition to your study. You can put her next to the elephant’s-foot umbrella stand.”

“To the Incorrigible children, these exotic beasts must have been as strange and comical looking as a person in a clown costume would be to the average child.”

French made me imagine the exotic places I was learning about.