Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

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.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.