The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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