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 of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.