A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.