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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

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

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.