This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This Renaissance palace features a unique architectural design and is now home to the Ferrara National Art Gallery.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.