This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.