The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

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

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

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.