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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.