An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.