This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

An otherworldly alpine pasture with its own unique microculture that recalls Middle Earth.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

This exceptionally well-preserved ancient marvel also houses a small museum dedicated to Jordanian folk tradition.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.