After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.