A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.