A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.