Paris, France
Musée des Arts Forains
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
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Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.
Paris, France
A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.
Paris, France
A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.
Paris, France
A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.
Paris, France
Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Paris, France
A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Dover, New Hampshire
Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.
Colebrook, New Hampshire
A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.
Concord, New Hampshire
A real-life hidden Easter Egg in New Hampshire's capital city
Manchester, New Hampshire
This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.
Moultonborough, New Hampshire
The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.