A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This mysterious sculpture was thought to symbolize a world ravaged by misery.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

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

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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