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Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A science teacher's dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.