A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

This funky former tobacco factory is one of the most striking examples of Madrid's cultural diversity.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

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

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

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

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