A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.