This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

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

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

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

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

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.