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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

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

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

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

A ring of soy sauce bottle bases decorate an important Singaporean landmark.

This fountain was once heralded as the largest in the world.