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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

In 1999, a new equine figure was cut into this English hillside near the site where an older white horse had previously appeared.

Several Iron Age artifacts were discovered during excavations of this ancient site.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

A giant dish used in this village's long tradition of baking absurdly large meat pies now serves as a flowerbed.

This unusual gravestone was crafted for cricket lover and master bat maker William Oates Sykes.

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

This painted wooden sculpture depicts the characters of a popular Devon folk song.

One of the best-preserved examples of an old town lock-up in the country.

Once a year, a sandbar rises from the depths just in time for the world's weirdest match.

This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

Beside the pew where C.S. Lewis often sat while attending church, a window filled with characters from his beloved stories.