Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.