Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

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.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.