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

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

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.