Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.