The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.