This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.