Tear apart fatty, gently charred lamb chops with your bare hands.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.