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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

These old World War II fortifications have been transformed into an unusual equine attraction.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.