A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.