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The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.

This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.