Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

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

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