Gare Saint-Lazare train station, Paris, France

When this Paris railway terminal opened in 1837, commuters could only ride from here to Le Pecq, a suburb of the French capital. Today Gare Saint-Lazare hosts 27 platforms and serves as an important nexus in the Paris Metro system. During the late 19th century, many famous French painters lived here in the 8th arrondissement, and the appeal of Gare Saint-Lazare proved irresistible to them, inspiring the brushes of Monet, Manet, and Caillebotte, to name three. As if Nature responds in kind, those clouds in this image certainly have a brushstroke quality.