Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.