BDSM, 1930s Style.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

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

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.