Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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