Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This volcano in the Philippines is believed to have miraculous healing powers.

A very peculiar and macabre statue calls Tugatog Cemetery home.

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

This eerie abandoned building with a dark history is said to be one of the most haunted places in the Philippines.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

It is believed that the historic tower is sinking at a rate of an inch a year, though no one is completely sure why.