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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.