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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.