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

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.