One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

The loneliest island in New York.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.