The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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

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.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.