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Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

The burial place of one the greatest Arthurian authors, with the sword in the (grave)stone.

The alleged vampires after which these islets are named may have actually been plague victims.

This old museum contains dozens of detailed miniature ships and buildings.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.