A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

A Finnish artist's unique fauna statuary.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.