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Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.