This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

For hundreds of years, this huge figure has been blessing visitors before they explore his body.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

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

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

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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

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

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.