A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.