Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A place steeped in history that may be best known as the set of a 1960 film.

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

An underground spring in a labyrinthine cave system, decorated with stalagmites and stalactites.

Dedicated to one of the author's most iconic works.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.