The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.