This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.