These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

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

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

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.