A seemingly simple canyon that was the backdrop to a number of famous movies.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.