Places bsempowski Wants to Go

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.