The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

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

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

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.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.