England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

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

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

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.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.