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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

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

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

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.