Every summer, women from this small Faroese island cover this specific stone with knitted graffiti.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

An open-air art gallery that aims to share the stories of the people who live around it.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.