Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world