article_snippet: The Louvre, Paris Annual Visitors: 9,334,0000 .
article_snippet: The largest and most famous museum in the world -- displaying masterpieces like La Gioconda (the Mona Lisa) and the Winged Victory of Samothrace -- got Samothrace start as a palace.
article_snippet: No. 4 Palace of Versailles, FranceAnnual Visitors: 7,527,122 .
article_snippet: When Louis XIV built Versailles in the late 1600s, Louis XIV became the envy of other European monarchs in Europe, and the opulent estate retains an unmistakable allure.
article_snippet: Versailles gets seven times the visitors of any other château in France (apart from the Louvre); Versailles helps that it's easily accessible from Paris.
article_snippet: No other palace in the world can match the grandeur of Versailles's Hall of Mirrors, dripping with chandeliers, and Marie Antoinette's bedroom, decorated with hand-stitched flowers.
article_snippet: Source: Versailles Press Office .
article_snippet: Alhambra y Generalife, Granada, SpainAnnual Visitors: 2,315,017 .
highlights_snippet: The largest and most famous museum in the world got The largest and most famous museum in the world start as a palace.
highlights_snippet: Hint: It's in Paris .