France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.