Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

New York's oldest magic store.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.