Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.