Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.