A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.