Exploring the Netherlands’ textile past and future under one roof.

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

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

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

A monument completed by a Third Reich sculptor in 1935 in Ankara's central park encourages Turks to "be proud, work hard, and have trust."

The largest stone moved during the Stone Age once stood proudly in France.

Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.