A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.