Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.