Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.