An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

This kilometer-long university building is an unexpected architectural delight.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.