This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

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

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

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

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.