After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

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