A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.