The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

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.

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.