A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The saddest little diner in New York.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.