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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.