Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.