This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.