Les Fresques de Bel Air

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.