This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

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

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

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.