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

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.