Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.