The first European statue dedicated to the legendary musician.

This rose and lavender oil distillery still operates as it did more than a century ago.

A colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.