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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.