An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.