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Each solstice, students and astronomy enthusiasts gather at a primitive but functioning sun wheel to witness how humanity first used this calendar.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

Portraits of musicians line Oude Binnenweg, the jazziest street in the city.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

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

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.