A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.