Paris, France
Cinémathèque Française
This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.
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Paris, France
This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.
Lyon, France
For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Giverny, France
At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.
Porto, Portugal
A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.
Porto, Portugal
Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Geneva, Switzerland
This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.