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A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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