A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

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