An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Will Geer's outdoor theater started as a mountain retreat for actors, musicians, and other artists who were blacklisted during the Red Scare.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.