This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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.

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

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.