A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.