This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

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

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

This commercial and retail center was crafted from walled military barracks.

Once a training ground for Olympic athletes, this artificial ski slope has fallen into ruin after a fire in 2012.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.