A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.