The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.