The sculpture shows a water rat turning the world upside-down, landing an elephant on its head.

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.