Places Stymphalian Wants to Go

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

This public amphitheater was once a key part of Monaco’s defense strategy.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.