Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.