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A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

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

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.