A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

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

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

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.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.