Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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