The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.