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

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

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

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.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.