This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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