The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.