Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard.

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world has been in continuous use since it was first built in 1531.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.