Paris, France
La Promenade Plantée
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
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Paris, France
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.
Paris, France
Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Saint-Ouen, France
Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.
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The world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses.
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The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.