The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

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

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.