From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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