This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A scalable map of Colombia with the bonus of a butterfly house.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.