Paris, France
Musée National de la Marine
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
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Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Île-d'Aix, France
Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Washington, D.C.
The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
New York, New York
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
Los Angeles, California
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
Tucson, Arizona
Miniature art that tells an enormous story.
Anaheim, California
The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.
New York, New York
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
New York, New York
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
New York, New York
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.