On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

Tel Aviv's popular neighborhood went though endless waves of transformation.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.