Paris, France
Statue of Death of the University of Medicine
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
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Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Hauterives, France
This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Athenry, Ireland
Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.
Glenslane, Ireland
This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.
Adare, Ireland
An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.
Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania
Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Kisoro, Uganda
The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A high point in Vancouver kitsch.
Fargo, North Dakota
"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"