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 popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

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

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

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

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.

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

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.