The world's first funicular powered by a steam engine.

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

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

A museum of puppets and puppetry covering all Asian styles.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.