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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

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

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.