Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

The last remaining Hakka cemetery in Singapore.

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.

Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.

The largest terracotta fountain in the world, built to commemorate Britain’s Victorian achievements.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.