Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.