This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This student-run nightclub was originally a World War II bomb shelter.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

This building's name and a plaque are all that's left of what was probably the most important nightclub of the Madchester music scene.

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

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