This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

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

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The lost Latin words were reconstructed using the holes from the nails that once pinned them in place.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.