How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.