A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Got apples?

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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.

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

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.