A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This alpine statue of Jesus in Silverton is said to protect both miners and local economies.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.