This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A lovely biographical museum in the artist's home of 24 years.

In the middle of a Brussels roundabout, a cargo container balancing on its edge.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.