Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

A unique collection of military history dating back to the American Revolution.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.