Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A plaque bearing the names of those who dedicated themselves to protecting Budapest's Jewish population during World War II.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.