Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Paris, France
The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.
Natzwiller, France
Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.
Paris, France
Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The room where Vincent van Gogh died.
Chamonix, France
Trek up this glacier before it disappears.
Angoville-au-Plain, France
Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.
Arras, France
An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.
Carnoët, France
A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.
Paris, France
Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.
Dénezé-sous-Doué, France
Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.
Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France
A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.
Belfort, France
A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.
Rouen, France
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.
Paris, France
This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.
Fontenay-en-Parisis, France
The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.