A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.