This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

A humble homage to a gravedigger tucked within the dignified English cathedral.