This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.