A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.