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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

Museum of amazing old toys and automata.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.