This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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 museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.