A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

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

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

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.