The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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