Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

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

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.