An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Stained-glass windows inspired by Vincent van Gogh's paintings decorate this church in the town where the artist's career began.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

The birthplace of the titular coat and related products celebrates its claim to fame with a statue of a coat.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.