Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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

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

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.