The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.