Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

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

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.