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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.