Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.