A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.