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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.