Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.