Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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