The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.