A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.