At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

This massive and eclectic collection is filled with thousands of sculptures, masks, and assemblages.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

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

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.

This warehouse-gallery-shop hybrid showcases Mexican craftwork at its best.

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.