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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.