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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.