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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.

This townhouse was once the original home of the Scottish Football Association.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.