A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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