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

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

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”