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

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."