Strasbourg, France
Historic Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospital
This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
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Strasbourg, France
This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Saint-Ouen, France
Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Saint-Ouen, France
An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.
Colmar, France
This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Rouen, France
Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.
Reims, France
This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.
Paris, France
Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.
Paris, France
In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.
Paris, France
The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.