Places ghoulfiend Wants to Go

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.