What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

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

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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 whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.