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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.