Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

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

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

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.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.