Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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