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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.