This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.