The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.