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The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.

The remains of a 13th-century Franciscan friary have survived multiple attempts at destruction, most recently in 1921.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

The symbolic center of Ireland, this summit also offers panoramic views of the countryside.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

Modern sundial uses ancient methods to tell time and date perfectly.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.