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

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

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.