This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.