Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

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

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

A pristine beach on the Gulf of Mexico with deep ties to Pensacola’s Black community.

A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.