Paris, France
Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
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.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Zurich, Switzerland
Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!
Mondsee, Austria
This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Szałe, Poland
Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.