Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

This museum contains a vast array of puppets and marionettes from all over the world, featuring incredible works by Portuguese creators.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

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

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.