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Stockholm, Sweden

Skansen Open Air Museum

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.
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Stockholm, Sweden

Vasa Museum

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
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San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
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San Francisco, California

Japanese Tea Garden

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
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San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
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Vatican City

Vatican Necropolis

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
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Rome, Italy

The Mouth of Truth

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
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Prague, Czechia

Tančící dům - Dancing House of Prague

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Christine Williamson Added by Christine Williamson
Prague, Czechia

Sex Machines Museum

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Rachel Added by Rachel
Prague, Czechia

Prague Astronomical Clock

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
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Paris, France

Musée Marmottan Monet

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.
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Paris, France

Pont de la Concorde

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Allison Added by Allison
Paris, France

Centre Pompidou

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
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Paris, France

Musée de la Prefecture de Police

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.
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Paris, France

La Promenade Plantée

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
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Paris, France

The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Paris, France

Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Dylan Added by Dylan
Paris, France

Julien Aurouze and Co.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
serflac Added by serflac
Paris, France

Musée de Cluny

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Allison Added by Allison
Paris, France

Museum of Eroticism

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
Madiha Bataineh Added by Madiha Bataineh
Paris, France

Salvador Dalí Sundial

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Allison Added by Allison
Paris, France

Paris Point Zero

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.
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Paris, France

Paris Padlocks of Love

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
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