This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

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

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

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

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.