This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Got apples?

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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