A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

The village's cobblestone streets are lined with shops displaying exquisite copper craftsmanship.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.