Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.