A glamorous socialite, fashion columnist, pianist and mother before the war, she became the only woman to head an underground resistance network against the Nazi Occupation in France.
Behind its handsome 19th century facade on the Rue de Rivoli, the reality of the "other Louvre" is that today, only one strong-willed shopkeeper is still holding court.
"An American Family" was sold it as a social experiment. A fly-on-the-wall view of a family's life under the sun in the picturesque town of Santa Barbara, California.
During his short life Aubrey Beardsley produced a body of work that was influential enough to shake up the Victorian society in which he lived, mixing art nouveau flamboyance with sexually charged imagery inspired by ancient Japanese erotica.
It takes a special kind of person to build out a home in a rock — equal parts gusto and patience.
Y'know, the one with a dramatic double staircase made for cape swooshing, cinematic lamp posts and marble for days?
When it first opened in 1988 on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it promised "paradise at sea." Within a decade, it would be floated across 14,000km of ocean and parked in an equally, soon-to-be doomed North Korean tourist resort.
Take a journey in photos through this peculiar town and its witchy history.
Every seven years, it emerged from the mist. The isle of "Hy-Brasil," aka the ancient Irish Atlantis bound to the whims of the sea, revered by locals as the home of their pagan gods, or else, as the outpost of a lone magician and his castle - the rumor mill never stopped churning
150 years ago, parks were still a privilege for the upper-class in America, if they even existed at all. So folks flocked to the next best thing: the cemetery.
During the height of the French Revolution, France had just about lost its mind. The "Reign of Terror" was as terrible as it sounds.
At no other chateau in all of France will you find a Soviet helicopter parked on the back lawn.