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Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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.

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

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

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

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

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.