An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.