One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.