A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."