The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

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

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.