This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

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

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

A desert that evokes the surreal.