This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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