The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.