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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.