London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.