An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.