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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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 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.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.