High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

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

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.