A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

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

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

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.