This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.