More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."