Paris, France
Le Louxor Palais du Cinema
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
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Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Toulouse, France
There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Shiraz, Iran
Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.
Wanaka, New Zealand
A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
New York, New York
The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.
Chicago, Illinois
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
London, England
An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.