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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

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

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

The history and future of cannabis.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.