Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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