A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.