Paris, France
Museum of Eroticism
Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
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Paris, France
Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
Paris, France
A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.
Paris, France
Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.
Paris, France
This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.
Paris, France
A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.
Paris, France
This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.
Paris, France
Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
New Iberia, Louisiana
A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.
Kingman, Kansas
This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.
Wichita, Kansas
After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Natchez, Mississippi
The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.
Natchez, Mississippi
This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.