This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.