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The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

A wild annual race in Sardinia re-enacts Constantine's victory in Rome.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.