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

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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.