Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

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.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.