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A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.