The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.