Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The narrowest street in Paris.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.