Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Many historians today consider Sverre as Norway's greatest king of all time. 

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.