An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Two nearly identical Chinese pagodas stand side by side, along with ancient stone relics.

The earliest pagoda built in the beautiful Panmen Scenic Area of Suzhou.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.