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Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

This hotel was once home to a steamliner company and became the final rest stop for Europeans heading to the New World.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The site where two doves fell in love.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Only a few walls remain of the last church the Pilgrims used before they sailed to North America.