Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

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

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

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.