These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Tucked in the back of a flower shop, its collection details the fascinating history of the Netherlands's iconic symbol.

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

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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