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

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

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

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

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

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.