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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

This centuries-old rooster survived a devastating fire.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.