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

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.