This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.