A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.