Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

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 statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.