This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

A miniature of a lighthouse acts as a beacon for what transpires inside this location.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

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

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

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.