The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

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

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.