A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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.

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

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.