Although damaged beyond recognition, this stone god is still said to bring good luck to those who tap on him with a pebble.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.