Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This retro diner claims to be the birthplace of poutine.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

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

Healing waters from a holy well, previously used by locals for doing laundry.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.