This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.