Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

Over two million dolls have been healed during this hospital's century in business.