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A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.

A former Army airfield is home to one of the largest aviation museums in America.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.