Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.