A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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.