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Colorful turkeys gobble and greet delighted visitors.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

This historical manor is complete with a magnificent garden.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.

A striking circle of basalt columns perched on Ibiza’s rugged western coast, aligning art, astronomy, and myth in a landscape where time seems to stand still.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.