What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.