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

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.