The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.