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

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

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

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A piece of stonework relief commemorates the site where the Devil's rage, and odd apparel, destroyed a house.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.