With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

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

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.