This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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.

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

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.