One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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.

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

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.