Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.