This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

These carved medieval "mercy seats" are among the finest in the world.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.