The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

A collection of short standing stones covers this hillside.

An abandoned village where the ruined foundations cling to a cliff.

The oldest church in Inverness witnessed the brutal executions of many Scottish soldiers.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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