Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.