Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."