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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.