Lesbos Prefecture, Greece
Petrified Forest of Lesbos
The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.
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Lesbos Prefecture, Greece
The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.
Fontenay-en-Parisis, France
The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.
Augsburg, Germany
Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Augsburg, Germany
According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.
Augsburg, Germany
This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.
Augsburg, Germany
What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.