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According to local folklore, this odd face on a wall of Rudyard Kipling's former home can bring visitors a bit of luck.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A hidden sculpture garden tucked within the middle of Brighton.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.