How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.