A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

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

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

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.