This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.