A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

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

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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