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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

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

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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