This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

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.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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