A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

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.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.