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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

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

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.