A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

A 13th century fortified house built to defend the Duchy of Burgundy.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.