Berlin, Germany
Design Panoptikum
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
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Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Allouville-Bellefosse, France
Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Lyon, France
Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France
An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.