Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

A portrayal of two lamps embraced and in love.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.