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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

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

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.