The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

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

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

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

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The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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